A change of work is the best rest.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWe balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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